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Description: | Early Medieval mount; Circular Anglo-Saxon mount from a hanging bowl. Cast copper alloy with silvery, polished surface. The mount has cast decoration of two triskele-type roundels with curved and foliate designs between. The mount is damaged on one side and some of the metal between the raised sections of design is missing, although the outer edge is complete.
Diameter 26.1mm, thickness 1.7mm, weight 3.25g
This object dates to the early Anglo-Saxon period. The overwhelming majority of hanging bowls were put in graves dating to the seventh century, although they may have been manufactured and used earlier than this.
Ref: Mills, pg 63, objects AS139 and AS140 (the latter also shown in Benet (second edition), pg 280, object A09-0110) | Subjects: | bowl Anglo-Saxon | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Rohde, Anja | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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